Joomla is a
well-known, widely used open source CMS. According to their website, 2.7
percent of the Web is running on Joomla. Its small download size, easy
installation and easy to use interface make it a top choice for a fast development
of a website. If you also add the fact that it runs on a PHP/MySQL environment
and that it supports a wide variety of plugins, you can see why Joomla is so
appreciated.
I have recently
used Joomla for a website I was developing these past few months. I must say
that if you are thinking of using it for deploying a website fast and easily I would
recommend it. However, it is my personal opinion that to get a great look and
fell as well as to add some more complex functionalities you would need some
basic CSS/HTML/PHP knowledge. For more complex functionalities you will
actually need to go in the source code sometimes which entails a good if not excellent
understanding of PHP. The good part is that, being open source, there is a
detailed documentation as well as a large community which can help you if you
run into any problems.
While I was
working on the website I discovered a very interesting bug which turned out to
be a very big security flaw. Note that this applies if you have more than one
user with admin privileges or which can access the global configuration
component in the administrator backend.
